Buona Vista. Soldier had been listed as missing following the ambush at South-West Bukit Timah on 11/2/1942.

Date of Death:

15.02.1942

General Description

Soldier had been listed as missing following the ambush at South-West Bukit Timah on 11.2.1942.

Gustave Davies was a Kingsley Fairbridge Farm Schoolboy. He sailed from London in a party of 39 children on Balranald and arrived in Fremantle aged 11 years on 14/11/1932. On the same 1932 journey was Ronald Burchell WX14023 also KIA 11.2.1942 at S-W Bukit Timah aged 21 years.

Gustave was housed at ‘Kitchener’ at Fairbridge.

Gustave died at age 20 as did another Fairbridge boy, Patrick George Hurst WX17351.